attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

Using a large set of private health insurance claims, we estimate how physicians’ financial incentives affect their … treatment choices in heart attack management. Different insurance plans pay physicians different amounts for the same services … physicians more for more invasive treatments are associated with a larger fraction of such treatments. To interpret this …